AltWeeklies Wire
An Idiotic Guide to Basketballnew
Every spring, millions of Americans start obsessing over March Madness. But if you're swept up in the March Madness at a busy sports bar you don't want to spoil everybody's fun with your ignorance of the sport. That's why we recommend you bluff your way through the Final Four with this guide...
Metro Times |
Michael Jackman |
04-07-2009 |
Sports
At a Historic Detroit Bath House, Sex Is Optional, But Nudity Isn'tnew
On most days The Schvitz is simply a spot for older men who enjoy the Old World tradition of the steam, a place with a rich history long before the lurid stories spread.
Metro Times |
Detroitblogger John |
04-07-2009 |
Culture
Detroit's Fabulous Counts Never Got Their Duenew
They are the best funk band you've probably never heard of -- or even heard. And if you have, you're probably already burning a candle in hope of future stateside dates.
Metro Times |
Don Waller |
04-07-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Doors and the Dead? Hendrix and the Who? What Were They Doing in Colorado Springs?new
It was a marriage made somewhere other than heaven: The Lizard King and the Homecoming Queen, together for the first and last time at The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
04-07-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: live music, Colorado Springs
Audrye Sessions Contemplates the Good Lifenew
Audrye Sessions has gone through a lot, including the dissolution of a romantic relationship, extended recording sessions in a haunted barn, and a close encounter with a plummeting airplane. But let's begin with the truck-stop orgy.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
04-07-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Audrye Sessions, indie rock
Colorado Springs Assembles Emergency Plan to Save Olympic Committee Projectnew
Until funds were produced to renovate the Olympic Training Center, the USOC wouldn't sign a lease for its new Colorado Springs office building. And until the USOC was in, the city wouldn't go millions into debt. This charade couldn't go on forever. And the city has decided to end it.
Colorado Springs Independent |
J. Adrian Stanley |
04-07-2009 |
Economy
To Capture the Grasses and Bugs, One Artist Turns to Plasticnew
In time, Regan Rosburg has mastered the elusive resin (also called acrylic), an ultra-hard and particularly unforgiving clear plastic that she describes as "emotional."
Colorado Springs Independent |
Edie Adelstein |
04-07-2009 |
Art
Landscapes, Urban and Suburban, on the Brink of Catastrophenew
An ecology of tedium might threaten us here, given the cascade of exhibitions being devoted to landscape. But there are a sufficient number of individual artists in two local shows who succeed in making the subject their own, while escaping the stereotypes of the convention.
New Haven Advocate |
Stephen Vincent Kobasa |
04-07-2009 |
Art
Is Connecticut's Hand-Held Cell Phone Ban Making Roads Safer?new
The state makes virtually no effort to track that information and the evidence it has collected may leave you underwhelmed.
New Haven Advocate |
Andy Bromage |
04-07-2009 |
Policy Issues
The New Gold Rushnew
As the economy tanks, doomsayers and commodity traders say it's time to invest in the shiny stuff.
New Haven Advocate |
Nathan Paluck |
04-07-2009 |
Economy
Seth Rogen Takes Charge, and We Get to Laugh
Writer/director Jody Hill makes a quantum leap from his low-budget 2006 debut feature The Foot Fist Way with a hilarious subversive black comedy about America's post-9/11 culture of authority-abusing misfits, commonly referred to as security guards.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
04-06-2009 |
Reviews
Ken Salazar Has to Save the Interior Departmentnew
Facing a legacy of crumbling parks infrastructure, ravaged public lands and stunning mismanagement, the new Secretary has plenty to work on.
They'll Slaughter Your Dinner As You Watch -- But Don't Tell the Copsnew
At the tiny, often filthy farms of rural Northwest Dade County, Cubans and other immigrants keep alive a cottage industry of unlicensed slaughter.
Miami New Times |
Gus Garcia-Roberts |
04-06-2009 |
Food+Drink
The Trail of an Art Heist in France Ends in Suburban South Floridanew
In less than five minutes, five men stole $6.3 million worth of art. Thirteen months later, a Frenchman was sentenced to five years in prison for trying to sell the artwork in South Florida.
Miami New Times |
Michael J. Mooney |
04-06-2009 |
Crime & Justice
NASCAR Drivers Start Your Enginesnew
I stubbornly repeat: NASCAR drivers are not athletes.
Dallas Observer |
Richie Whitt |
04-06-2009 |
Sports
Tags: auto racing, sports & fitness
